Improved machine for loading metallic cartridge-cases



' in the under face of the loading-wheel is for i the face of theloading-wheel for receiving the ball, and, second, to raise the shellsof the cartridges a sufficient distance above the face i UNITED STATESPATENT E rcE.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR LOADING METALLIC CARTRIDGE-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,780, dated August 9,1864.

T 0 all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. LAVIS, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulimprovement on the machine for loading metallic cartridges by cutting agroove in the under face of the loading-wheel and fastening to thobed-plate a block having on its upper face one or more inclined planesand one or more resting-flats. The groove cut the purpose of receivingthe block and giving the shells of the cartridges sufficient space toraise and lower. The block is for raising the shells of the cartridges,first, on a level with of the loading-wheel to allow of crimping or itightening the shell to the ball; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to l the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which Plate 1, (planview,) Figure A represents the bed-plate; Fig. B, the loading-wheel; p,the holes in the loading-wheel for inserting the shells of thecartridges; a, the stud around which the loading-wheel revolves. InPlate 2 (plan view) Fig. B is the under face of the loading-wheel, inwhich the groove 1 is cut, (as claimed.) In Plate 4 m is a side View ofthe block, showing the inclined planes a and b and the resting-flats cand d. Plate 5 is a vertical section of the loading-Wheel B, showing theholes 1) filled with shells s of the cartridges, the block m, with theinclined planes a and b,

and the resting-flats c and d on it, also a side view of the bed-plateA.

Upon the revolution of the loading-wheel (Plate 5) the shell of thecartridge 8 is carried up the first inclined plane a of the block at tothe first resting-flat c. This brings the rim of the shell of thecartridge 8 on a level with the upper face of the loading-wheel B, Wherethe ball is inserted into it. By the further revolution of theloading-wheel B the same cartridgeshell s is carried up the secondinclined plane b of the block in to the second restingflat d,where theshell of the cartridge projects a sufficient distance above the upperface of the loading-wheel to allow of crimping or tightening the shellto the ball, which con pletes the cartridge.

By the old method of making cartridges loading-wheels of differentthicknesses were used suited to the different lengths of cartridgerequired. I use the same loading-wheel for all cartridges, merely usingblocks of such heights as are suited to the lengths of cartridgerequired.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire & to secure by Letters Patent,is-

Cutting a groove, Z, in the under face of the loading-wheel B, andfastening a block, m, with one or more resting-flats, e and d, and oneor more inclined planes, a and b, on its upper face to the bed-plate A,the groove and block being arranged with reference to each 1 othersubstantiall in the manner as and for thepurpose herein described.

1 CHARLES H. LAVIS.

\Vitnesses:

W. W. DOUGHERTY,

WILLIAM DELANY.

